TRANSFERRED

This is the MOTHER insert...This is from Last Week.  Sorry for the delay...No Pictures so you have to just query Amadora to see where Elder Cordon gets to serve.  ENJOY

Well, the title says it all. I've been transferred. Not only have I been transferred but we were whitewashed out, and I'm whitewashing in! And I'll be training a new Elder named Elder Losa. Not sure really about anything else. My area is Amadora and we are doing email in this weird shopping mall thats a maze of phone stores literally called Babilonia. ...Babylon. Awesome.

So I'm kind of turnt down for leaving Vila Franca de Xira. We were just getting things rolling. I pray that the next Elders there don't have so much of a dead stop that we seemed to have when we got there. Me and Elder Lowry joked about getting transferred but we both figured we would stay. Haha, nope. If you wanna make God laugh, tell him your plans. We found out Saturday that we were getting whitewashed. Then Saturday night we find out that Elder Lowry was going to the Azores. Then Sunday morning we find out we need to get the train at seven that night and that we were sleeping over at the office. Wow. Sunday was crazy full of packing and what not. 

Awesome experiences? Teaching Augusto and Vanda. They are amazing. Everytime we were with them they were always so willing to learn more about the gospel and ask crazy hard and cool questions. We also have Ivan. I'm going to miss that big guy. I hope that all goes well with him and the other Elders and he finally decides that he actually is ready to be baptized.

I don't really have a ton of time to write but, the church is true! Crazy right? My nice little thought for all you lovely folks is that which I heard from Hoody, something that really applied directly to me. Just a short quote from a longer story: 

"I think that life is much like this. Sometimes it is overwhelming, looking at all of the things we need to get done. As we let all of that go, and focus on the task at hand, it gets much easier. We can each do difficult things. That doesn't mean we can't look around and enjoy the view, but we shouldn't let the view distract us when we're going through difficult times."

You guys are awesome. Love you all. Don't worry about worrying things that don't need to be worried about. Focus on the task at hand!

Love you all!

Elder Cordon